Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.